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Originally Posted by Joshua G
paul!
your information suffers from selection bias. How about the texas security officer who shot 2 jihadis in the head, who were about to shoot up an allah cartoon meeting.
where are you paul about those lives that are not dead? how many dozens wouldve been saved had the texas security officer been in the brussels airport. how many more people woulda been dead in san bernadino had the police response been like paris? that theatre was shot up for what, an hour? 
Maybe when the terrorist comes for you, you can swing a french bread at him or something.
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Airports are controlled by armed soldiers and police officers. Having lots of armed people walking around an airport would make the job of the security forces 10 times harder.
Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News
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Mass shootings: There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four or more people, including the assailant.
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All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]. Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final week of the year are counted.
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Firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year
Country Total Homicides Suicides Unintentional Undetermined
United Kingdom 0.23 0.06 (2011) 0.15 (2011) 0.00 (2011) 0.02 (2011)
United States 10.54 3.43 (2014) 6.69 (2014) 0.18 (2014) 0.08 (2014)
Show us how having more guns saves more lives?
Americans have been pumped full of propaganda for decades and it's this that people like Trump rely on. Without it he would be exposed as a liar.